August 20, 2007
Don and Karen Ringsby recently designated a portion of their charitable remainder trust to benefit the CU Art Museum. The trust is currently valued at approximately $2.4 million of which $1.6 million will benefit the CU Art Museum, the largest endowed donation the museum has ever received.
August 7, 2007
Foundation and Endowment Money Management, a publication of Institutional Investor, recently named the University of Colorado Foundation as a finalist for large nonprofit of the year in their 2007 Nonprofit Awards for Excellence.
July 31, 2007
Contact: Sonya Guram, state enterprise zone coordinator, (303) 892-3804, sonya.guram@state.co.us Tom Hutton, University Relations, (719) 262-3439, thutton@uccs.edu The Colorado Economic Development Commission recently approved four capital projects of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs as Enterprise Zone contribution projects. This move will provide tax credits to Colorado taxpayers who contribute to the El [...]
July 11, 2007
Michel Dahlin, PhD, has been named assistant vice
president for foundation and corporate relations of the University of Colorado
Foundation.
July 9, 2007
Before Robert E. Foss graduated from the business school at the University of
Colorado at Boulder in 1971, he took many of his classes in the then-new building
constructed for the business school. Now 36 years later he and his wife will help provide
a similar experience for the 3,800 students of CU’s Leeds School of Business
June 21, 2007
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) recently named the University of Colorado Foundation the winner of two bronze medals in their Circle of Excellence national competition. The foundation’s research and advancement services staff received two of the nine awards presented.
June 6, 2007
The University of Colorado today announced that the $125 million it raised in fiscal year
2007 shattered by more than $32 million the record for the best fund-raising year in the
institution’s 131-year history.
April 26, 2007
Cheryl Kisling Crouch has been appointed vice president of development for the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC).
April 11, 2007
The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC) has received two Daniels Fund grants totaling $200,000 to create the Center on Reinventing Public Education and to introduce a new Addiction Research and Treatment Services program.
April 1, 2007
When it comes to investing in hedge funds, Christopher Bittman leaves nothing to chance. As chief investment officer of the University of Colorado Foundation, Bittman hires private investigators to do extensive background checks on prospective managers for the endowment.